Notice how Tomlin captioned the photo on his Twitter account. Always maintaining a balance.

Penn State will be in Pittsburgh next September for the first of their four-game series with the Panthers. Narduzzi recently said that he wants to extend the series. Franklin and Penn State have been non-committal, largely because the Big Ten's future schedules include nine conference games.

That would make it difficult for Penn State to commit to an annual home-and-home series, since the program budgets for seven home games. And Pitt won't acquiesce on a two-for-one.